APPENDIX TO CHRONICLE. 
P. 8. Since writing the above, 
I have received a report, that 
Major-General Sir William Pon- 
sonby is killed, and, in announc- 
ing this intelligence to your lord- 
ship, I have to add the expression 
of my grief, for the fate of an 
officer, who had already render- 
ed very brilliant and important 
services, and was an ornament to 
his profession. 
2nd P. S. L have not yet got the 
returns of killed and wounded, 
but I enclose a list of officers kil- 
led and wounded on the two days, 
as far as the same can be made 
out without the returns; and I 
am very happy to add, that Col. 
Delancy is not dead, and that 
strong hopes of his recovery are 
entertained. 
DOWNING-STREET. 
June 23, 1815. 
A dispatch, of which the fol- 
lowing is a copy, was this da 
received from Field-Marshal the 
Duke of Wellington, K. G. to 
Earl Bathurst, his Majesty’s Prin- 
cipal Secretary of State for the 
War Department. 
Brussels, June 19, 1815. 
My Lord,—I have to inform 
your lordship, in addition to my 
dispatch of this morning, that we 
have already got here five thou- 
sand prisoners, taken in the ac- 
tion of yesterday, and that there 
are above two thousand more 
coming in to-morrow; there will 
probably be many more. Among 
the prisoners are the Count Lo- 
bau, who commanded the 6th 
corps, and General Cambrone, 
who commanded a division of the 
179 
guards. I propose to send the 
whole to England by Ostend. 
I have the honour to be, &c. 
WELLINGTON. 
Earl Bathurst, &e. 
WAR DEPARTMENT. 
Downing-street, June 29, 1815. 
Dispatches, of which the follow- 
ing are extracts, have been this 
day received by Earl Bathurst 
from Field-Marshal his Grace the 
Duke of Wellington, dated Ca- 
teau, 22nd, and Joncourt, 25th 
instant. 
Le Cateau, June 22, 1815. 
We have continued in march 
on the left of the Sambre since I 
wrote to you. Marshal Blucher 
crossed that river on the 19th, in 
pursuit of the enemy, and both 
armies entered the French terri- 
tory yesterday ; the Prussians by 
Beaumont, and the allied army, 
under my command, by Bavay. 
The remains of the French 
army have retired upon Laon, 
Allaccounts agree in stating that 
it is in a very wretched state ; 
and that, in addition to its losses 
in battle and in prisoners, it is 
losing vast numbers of men by 
desertion. 
The soldiers quit their regi- 
ments in parties, and return to 
their homes; those of the cavalry 
and artillery selling their horses 
to the people of the country. 
The 3rd corps, which in my dis- 
patch of the 19th I informed your 
lordship had been detached to ob- 
serve the Prussian army, remain- 
ed in the neighbourhood of Wavre 
till the 20th: it then made good 
its retreat by Namur and Dinant. 
